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→The recruitment of Hank Rearden
Galt flew Rearden to the valley, summoned the valley's physician (who happened to be a famous neurosurgeon, another of Galt's recruits) to tend to Rearden, and let him rest in the "anteroom" of his house. Rearden did not pass a sleepless night, as so many of Galt's recruits had done. He was ready to join the strike and start at once to rebuild Rearden Steel—in Mulligan's Valley.
Galt flew Rearden to the valley, summoned the valley's physician (who happened to be a famous neurosurgeon, another of Galt's recruits) to tend to Rearden, and let him rest in the "anteroom" of his house. Rearden did not pass a sleepless night, as so many of Galt's recruits had done. He was ready to join the strike and start at once to rebuild Rearden Steel—in Mulligan's Valley.
Galt introduced Rearden to Midas Mulligan's traditional "welcome home" dinner. Rearden did not disappoint; he spent about half his time taking orders for the first heats of Rearden Metal that he would be able to pour from his new installation, as fast as he could build it and bring it on-line.
The novel does not say whether Galt stayed in the valley over the next two and a half weeks, or not. Possibly he did, and paid for his time by tutoring Rearden on three years' worth of research and discoveries, in exchange for the usual ten gold-dollar fee. Rearden, who came to the valley bearing a bar of gold, would certainly need no time-payment plan! Galt would want to offer Rearden every possible advantage, so that Rearden might get into production as fast as he could.
But Dagny Taggart remained in the larger world. John Galt wanted her very badly—in fact, she was now the one value that the outer world held that he wanted, and he was going to have her, price no object. So now he prepared to take his greatest risk.
== The great speech ==
== The great speech ==